Travelogue : A week in Tokyo - 4

To move in Tokyo. Horrible? Not at all, it's very playful. Complicated then? No, it's certainly simpler than in our cities. Expensive? Apart from the walk that costs nothing, yes it is a large budget even a week, consider visiting this huge megacity without taking its incredible transport network is simply impossible. The taxi is very expensive, on foot the journeys take hours, remain the bike that we have not tried even if the city is endowed with very many bike paths, unfortunately often mixed with the sidewalks. Another reason not to deprive yourself of public transport is that it will allow you to see all the diversity of the inhabitants of Tokyo, because everyone takes the metro.

It is therefore armed with our freshly acquired Pasmo map that we have gone to the onslaught of this sprawling network. Whether to take the city train, the metro and its various companies, the monorail, the Pasmo card allows you not to buy a ticket, just credit it to terminals present everywhere (no extra charge the Pasmo card you also allows to pay the entrances of some parks, museum, drinks to the distributor ...). These are very well made terminals available in a lot of languages ​​(including French) that accepts tickets, coins and bank cards, the recharge takes less than a minute, impressive. It should be known that the journeys are paid at the distance, with this type of card more need to calculate, you badger while entering the station, you badger while leaving, it is debited. If by chance your balance is too low at the time of the exit there are terminals to fill. At the end of your trip, your Pasmo can be zero thanks to this system.

I will not knock you out of numbers, just tell you that this metro is the cleanest, most secure, the most punctual I've seen. People behave in a very civil way and make you very big smiles if you do the same. If by the greatest of luck you are lost or even seem to have a problem an employee will come out of nowhere to help you. Another incredible fact, some metro stations have an employee who welcomes you upon your arrival in the station, it is mini-job for retired, seen from Europe it's weird. Only downside, no traffic between midnight and 5 am. My travel buddy presumes it's a blow from the taxi drivers' lobby ;)

Nikon D750 - Ambient light - With post-processing

Follow these links if you want to read my old articles about this trip :
Opus 3 : https://steemit.com/travel/@ajanphoto/travelogue-a-week-in-tokyo-3
Opus 2 : https://steemit.com/travel/@ajanphoto/travelogue-a-week-in-tokyo-2
Opus 1 : https://steemit.com/travel/@ajanphoto/travelogue-a-week-in-tokyo-1